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Student Projects
This page archives student projects on newtFire chronologically. In 2020, newtFire hosted projects developed by students from sibling
courses at two universities: Penn State Erie, The Behrend College and the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg. At Penn State Behrend, student projects are developed under the aegis of the Digital Media, Arts, and Technology (PSU DIGIT) major, while those at Pitt-Greensburg are part of the Center for the Digital Text and Digital Studies undergraduate certificate program (UPG CDT).
Student projects prior to 2020 were developed in the University of Pittsburgh system. Several of the projects here ceased development with the termination of a semester (especially those constructed prior to 2015), but others have continued active development.
Please see also student projects developed on Obdurodon.org through the University of Pittsburgh Honors College. The projects represented on Obdurodon and newtFire are part of a coalition of Pitt and Penn State text encoding courses that maintain a long-standing tradition of interchange and mutual support.
Spring 2025
DIGIT Works Student Showcase: featuring Senior Capstone projects (DIGIT 494) and semester projects from Large-Scale Text Analysis (Digit 210), Advanced Digital Creations (Digit 409), Fundamentals of Digital Audio (INART 258A), Data Visualization (Digit 410), Game Development Projects (Game 480), Technical Game Development (Game 250).
| PSU DIGIT: Text Analysis |
PSU DIGIT: Senior Web/Code-Based Projects |
- Greta Van Fleet and Led Zeppelin Comparison [GitHub]
Michael Simons, Alexander Fisher, Ashlynn Allgeir, and Connor Carpenter
- Weird Fiction [GitHub]
Molly Wright and Chelsea Quijas
- John Hughes Project [GitHub]
Evan Larson, Railey Kranz, and Sean Martin
- True Crime [GitHub]
Dannika Love, Emily Kalie, Rashe Mishra, and Gabriella Vozar
- One Piece [GitHub]
Samantha Sebulak, Leo Karmer, and Temi Sakote
- Pokemon Movesets [GitHub]
Emma Verhagen, Matthew Wilpula, and Harry Bartolotti
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Fall 2024
DIGIT Works Student Showcase: featuring semester projects from Text Encoding (DIGIT 110), Professional Photography (PHOTO 202), Digital Project Design (DIGIT 400), Game Development (Game 480), and Senior projects (DIGIT 494).
| PSU DIGIT: Text Encoding |
PSU DIGIT: Senior and Honors Web/Code-Based Projects |
PSU DIGIT: Digital Project Design |
Manuscript Archive Project
Movie Script Projects
Comic Book Archive Projects
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DIGIT 400 Portfolio projects: experiments with SVG and JavaScript
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Spring 2024
DIGIT Works Student Showcase: featuring senior design projects and course projects from Advanced Digital Creations (Digit 409), Data Visualization (Digit 410), Game Development (Game 480), Technical Game Development (Game 250), Large-Scale Text Analysis (Digit 210), and Electronic Music Composition (Music 458)
| PSU DIGIT: Text Analysis |
PSU DIGIT: Senior Web/Code-Based Projects |
- The Olivia Rodrigo
Project [GitHub]
Lindsey Wood, Lauren McCurdy, Alisson Gossage
- Elder Scrolls
Dovahzul Project [GitHub]
Tyler Gaydos and Owen Helm
- Ace Attorney Project [GitHub]
Reece Cullen,
Alyssa Hopple, Kayla Hopple
- Family Guy Project [GitHub]
Josiah Ruiz, Hattie Sosia, Liz Chavez
- Finance News Sentiment Analysis [GitHub]
Andrew Bond, Caleb King
- Futurama Project [GitHub]
Mistie McColm, Charlie Vazquez, Samantha Moniot, Tyler
Dollard
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Fall 2023
DIGIT Works Student Showcase: featuring senior design projects and course projects from Fall 2023 DIGIT 110 (Text Encoding), GAME 180N, GAME 420, and GAME 480, plus senior and Schreyer Honors College projects
| PSU DIGIT: Text Encoding |
PSU DIGIT: Senior and Honors Web/Code-Based Projects |
PSU DIGIT: Digital Project Design |
- Dennis the Menace CBML project [GitHub]: analyzing the Dennis the Menace comics Volume 58 (1962)
Remington Orange, Lyndon Herschell, and Lauren McCurdy
- Sonic the Hedgehog CBML project [GitHub]: digitally curating and analyzing the Sonic the Hedgehog comics
Reece Cullen, Kayla Hopple, and Alyssa Hopple
- The Walking Dead CBML project [GitHub]: an homage to The Walking Dead comics
Chelsea Quijas, Tyler Dollard, and Mistie McColm
- Jujutsu Kaisen! CBML project [GitHub]: coding manga: Jujutsu Kaisen Volume 11 Chapters: 89-91
Jordan James and George Koncerak
- Founding of Penn State Behrend [GitHub]: Project working with the Behrend College Library archives to investigate the people, places, and events involved in founding Penn State Erie, the Behrend College in 1948
Samantha Moniot and Lindsey Wood
- Alice's Adventures Underground [GitHub]: investigating the first draft of Alice in Wonderland, titled Alice’s Adventures Underground, by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodson)
Tyler Gaydos, Madison Sciarrillo, Charlie Vazquez, and Matthew Weitzel
- Mary Russell Mitford’s Notebook (1819-1823) [GitHub]: extending and exploring manuscript data from Mary Russell Mitford’s journal: a collaboration with the Digital Mitford project.
Hadleigh Jae Bills, Nathan Hammer, and Josiah Ruiz
- Quark Magazine [GitHub]: curating data about the contributors of Quark magazine, edited by Samuel Delany, 1970 - 1971.
Connor Lengyel, Tommy Moffett-Clanton, Liz Chavez, and Hattie Sosia
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DIGIT 400 Portfolio projects [to be posted]: experiments with SVG and JavaScript
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Spring 2023
DIGIT Works Student Showcase: featuring senior design projects and course projects from Spring 2023 DIGIT 210 (Text Analysis), and DIGIT 409 (Advanced Digital Creations).
| PSU DIGIT: Text Analysis |
PSU DIGIT: Senior Web/Code-Based Projects |
- AI-Generated Game Lore [GitHub]
Tyler Akam and Stephen Catledge
- Bojack Horseman Analysis [GitHub]
Savannah Ricks and Milo Witcher
- Conspiracy Textfiles [GitHub]
Hadleigh Bills, Nathan Hammer, and Jermaine Shields
- Lord of the Rings Text Analysis [GitHub]
Jimin Kim, Noah Stachera, and Min Wu
- Star Wars Analysis: Episodes I - IX [GitHub]
Jaxon Abele, Jordan James, Shaun Massenburg, and Zach Schleger
- Stardew Valley Analysis [GitHub]
Graydon Kupfer, Yuying Jin, and Will Stiller
- The Simpsons Project [GitHub]
Lyndon Herschell, Remington Orange, and Egan Peck
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Fall 2022
DIGIT Works Student Showcase: featuring senior design projects and course projects from Spring 2022 DART 204 (Animation Fundamentals), INART 258A (Fundamentals of Digital Audio), DIGIT 210 (Text Analysis), and DIGIT 409 (Advanced Digital Creations).
| PSU DIGIT: Text Encoding |
PSU DIGIT: Digital Project Design |
Digital Humanities Open Lab collaborations
Behrend Archives
Hilaire Belloc’s Picture Books
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Behrend Archives
Behrend75th [GitHub]:
A digital archive with a search interface for exploring Behrend family and campus history. The archive assembles revised versions of multiple projects and makes possible the addition of new projects in future. It is developed by the DIGIT 400 class and prepared for the 75th anniversary of Penn State Erie, The Behrend College.
- Team leaders: Joey Gardiner, Yuying Jin, Erin Mooney, Rachel Gerzevske, Logan Hering
- Developers: Tyler Cameron, David Chen, Samuel Deeter, Zak Murphy, Natalya Myers, Kyara Parrish, Janet Pituch, Graesyn Tefft
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Spring 2022
DIGIT Works Student Showcase: featuring senior design projects and course projects from Spring 2022 DART 204 (Animation Fundamentals), INART 258A (Fundamentals of Digital Audio), DIGIT 210 (Text Analysis), and DIGIT 409 (Advanced Digital Creations).
| PSU DIGIT: Senior and Honors Web/Code-Based Projects |
PSU DIGIT: Text Analysis |
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- Star Wars Analysis [GitHub]
Joey Gardiner, Felipe Bassi, Thomas Hammer, Harrison Lilley, Aidan Ray
- Avatar: the Last Airbender Text Analysis [GitHub]
Graesyn Tefft, Tyler Cameron, Zack Dominick, Julian Giles, Erin Mooney, Kyara Parrish
- Seuss Analysis [GitHub]
Logan Hering, Geng Chen, Sam Deeter, Zak Murphy, Janet Pituch, Emily Wargo
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Fall 2021
DIGIT Works Student Showcase: featuring student project presentations by DIGIT students from Video Art and Time-Based Media, Text Encoding, Digital Project Design, and Senior / Honors projects.
| PSU DIGIT: Senior and Honors Web/Code-Based Projects |
PSU DIGIT: Digital Project Design |
PSU DIGIT: Text Encoding |
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- Ancient Mayans Digitized. [GitHub]
Mia Borgia, Anthony Wlodarczyk, Sam Andrew, Brett Meyer
- Behrend Trees. [GitHub]
Destinee Kellner, Grace Dill, Garrett Hess
- Guilty Gear / Let’s Rock. [GitHub]
Ruby Trumer, Sebastian Ortiz
- Kingdom Hearts. [GitHub]
Austin Murry, Cameron Bigi
- Musically Disney. [GitHub]
Amaya Willis, Jacqueline Chan
- Nissan Datsun DIGIT project. [GitHub]
McKenna Ballew and Syed Naqvi
- Super Smash Bros. Tiers. [GitHub]
Barbie Cessar, Emily Levi, Aidan Olsen, Anthony Vangeli
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- Mary Behrend’s 1909 calendar. [GitHub]
Rachel Gerzevske, Laina Banic, Amory Coleman-Reeves, Logan Hering, Zak Murphy
- Warren Behrend’s last letters. [GitHub]
Team 1: Austin Murry, Grace Dill, Sydney Beal. Team 2: Joey Gardiner, Thomas Hammer, Nicky Versagli
- Behrend family's travel letters, 1950s. [GitHub]
Janet Pituch, Katharine Hendricks. Eric Sandbloom
- Letter from Paul Siple to Mr. Behrend. [GitHub]
Graesyn Tefft, Sam Deeter, Harrison Lilley
- Picture books: Kew Gardens and Cautionary Tales for Children. [GitHub]
Erin Mooney, Yuying Jin, Aidan Ray, Sudarshan Veludandi, Nicholas Wright
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Spring 2021
DIGIT Works schedule: a series of events in April 2021, featuring the spring art show, a panel on Life after DIGIT
by DIGIT alumni, together with project presentations by senior DIGIT majors, and projects from Modeling & Simulation, Large-Scale Text Analysis, and Advanced Digital Creations classes.
| PSU DIGIT: Senior and Honors Web/Code-Based Projects |
PSU DIGIT: Text Analysis |
- PotterPlays: senior project analyzing eight screenplays of the Harry Potter movies [GitHub]
Bianka Alexander
- Harambee Dinner Program Archive: senior project digitally curating and analyzing the dinner programs of the Multi-Cultural Council at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College [GitHub]
Elizabeth Wheeler Musfi
- Sherlock Holmes Radio Scripts: investigating radio scripts from the World War II era adapting Arthur Conan Doyle’s serial publications. [GitHub]
Jacqueline Chan
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- Assassin’s Creed Odyssey [GitHub]
Isaac Esterline, Danny Hough, Anthony Wlodarczyk, Josh Sige
- Blues Analysis Project [GitHub]
Mia Borgia and Nicky Versagli
- Disney Songs Project [GitHub]
Amaya Willis, Jacqueline Chan, Tom Sheehy
- Grimm Brothers Project [GitHub]
Natalya Myers, Sheridan Fassett, and Emily Levi
- Kingdom of Hearts Project [GitHub]
Sebastian Ortiz, Jesse Beckwith, and Austin Murry
- The Legend of Zelda Text Analysis [GitHub]
Rachel Gerzevske, Eric Sandbloom, and Joel Watson
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Fall 2020
DIGIT Project Showcase event schedule: combining student presentations in DIGIT 110, 400, and PHOTO 200: 11 December 2020 @ 10:05am - 1:15pm (Zoom).
| PSU DIGIT: Digital Project Design |
PSU DIGIT: Text Encoding |
UPG CDT: Coding and Digital Archives |
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Students formed teams around a set of manuscript or document-processing challenges.
- Anna Julia Cooper’s responses to the Survey of Negro College Graduates. [GitHub]
Alice Rong and Syed Naqvi
- The Ballot and Me, by Langston Hughes. [GitHub]
Mia Borgia, McKenna Ballew, Brett Meyer
- Christmas Bells: A One Act Play for Children, by Anna Julia Cooper. [GitHub]
Natalya Meyers, Zak Teyssier, Alexander Van Woert, Anthony Wlodarczyk
- Dharma Bums, by Jack Kerouac. [GitHub]
Benjamin Simon and Joel Watson
- Dracula, by Bram Stoker. [GitHub]
Ruby Trumer, Samuel Andrew, Cameron Bigi, Destinee Kellner, Emily Levi, Sebastian Ortiz, Anthony Vangeli
- Montage of a Dream Deferred, by Langston Hughes. [GitHub]
Daniel Hough, Jacqueline Chan, Barbara Cessar, Aidan Olsen, Amaya Willis
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Spring 2020
Coding and Data Visualization
Fall 2019
Coding and Digital Archives
Spring 2019
Coding and Data Visualization
- The Banksy Project: develops a database and map of Banksy’s graffiti tags, sculptures, exhibitions, paintings, and books. [GitHub]
Alyssa Argento, James Farley, and Abdual Nadeem
- Bloodborne Lore: analyzes motifs, objects, and settings of the game Bloodborne Lore. [GitHub]
Frank Koshinskie, Donald Denne, and Nathan Dietz
- Pokemon Map: plots and evaluates Pokemon types, availability, and scarcity in the Pokemon world. [GitHub]
Jacob Gonos and Alan Chen
- The Ulysses Project: investigates literary allusions, and references in James Joyce’s Ulysses and maps them to locations in 1904 Dublin. [GitHub]
Fiona Carter, Kiara De Vore, Brad Thomas
Fall 2018
Coding and Digital Archives
Spring 2018
Coding and Data Visualization
Spring 2018 Greensburg students present their projects together with students in our sibling course at the Pittsburgh campus in the Cathedral of Learning on Friday morning April 19 beginning at 9am, according to the posted presentation schedule.
- Akira: A Textual Analysis: a significant upgrade of the available digital resources on the 1988 Japanese animated movie, with analysis of its characters and power networks. [GitHub]
Nicholas Pcsolar and Mark Raschiatore
- Rick and Morty: investigates and organizes the intricate time traveling references in the Rick and Morty animated TV series. [GitHub]
Dorothea Lint and Allyson Hall
- Overholt Diary: an analysis of Karl Overholt’s diary about the West Overton Mennonite Community in Scottdale, PA. Thanks to the West Overton Village and Museum for access to the original diary, scanned and digitized by the newtfire team. [GitHub]
Alex Fell and Garrett Joiner
Digital Humanities Advanced Praxis Group
In addition to the Coding and Data Visualization class, a group of advanced students from Greensburg and Pittsburgh met virtually once per week in Spring 2018 to review and refresh their skills and to build new projects and update their ongoing work on newtfire. The new projects include:
- La Lega Toscana di Protezione: A social, spatial, and linguistic study: archives and investigates documents from 1919 to 1925 of the Lega Toscana di Protezione, a beneficial society of Italian immigrants living in the Pittsburgh area. The documents are provided by the Heinz History Center, the full team of researchers includes members of students and faculty in the French, Spanish, and Italian Department at the University of Pittsburgh, and the digital work of the project is led and managed by Zachary Enick, a Pitt student and collaborator with the Greensburg and Pittsburgh DH instructor teams from Fall 2017. [GitHub]
Zachary Enick
- A linguistic study of Gertrude Stein’s Miss Furr Miss Skeene, conducted for a senior thesis project in English Literature:
[GitHub]
Jonathan Horanic
Additionally, the Advanced Praxis Group supervised Melissa Klamer, a member of the Digital Mitford project team and PhD student at Michigan State University, in her learning of TEI and the XML family of languages to develop her digital edition of Elizabeth Gaskell’s journal for her PhD thesis. Ongoing projects continued by members of the Advanced Praxis group this semester include Hamilton led by Audrey Hunker and Briana Filer and the Lope de Vega Project led by Prof. Stacey Triplette.
Fall 2017
Coding and Digital Archives
This semester, the students in our sibling course at the Pittsburgh campus worked with newtFire course materials, developed projects on newtfire, and advised on each other's work. We list Pittsburgh projects together with Greensburg student projects.
Greensburg:
- The Harlem Renaissance Poetry Project: investigates punctuation and figurative language in a collection by Harlem Renaissance poets Arna Bontemps, Claude McKay, James Weldon Johnson, and Langston Hughes. [GitHub]
Kaylee Stinebiser, Elizabeth Laughlin, and Tylar Lyons
- War of Currents: investigates the contesting views and language used for alternating vs. direct currents in the early years of planning electrical power grids. [GitHub]
Allyson Hall, Aaron Newton, and Jamie Downey
Pittsburgh:
- Portuguese WhatsApp: investigating linguistic patterns in a Portuguese text-messaging app.[GitHub]
Brandon Rodgers, Patrick Brooks, Tyler Bokan, and Zachary Enick
- 90s Rap: a linguistic investigation of rap music of the 1990s. [GitHub]
Monica Felix and Wesley Ho
Spring 2017
Coding and Data Visualization
- The Hamilton Project: studies the lyrics of Hamilton: The Musical, using network analysis to survey who is sung about by which characters, and mapping the locations referenced. [GitHub]
Audrey Hunker and Briana Filer
- News Analysis Project: comparatively analyzes the usage of emotional language in reporting from four major news sources; FOX News, CNN, BBC, and NPR. [GitHub]
Samantha McGuigan, Aaron Newton, and Jonathan Horanic
Fall 2016
Coding and Digital Archives
- The Graveyard Project: digitally mapping and curating historic Brush Creek Cemetery, Irwin, PA [GitHub]
Jon Horanic, Lauren McGuigan, and Jared Kramer
- The Lope de Vega Project: analyzing language and contexts of plays and prose by Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio [GitHub]
Stacey Triplette, Madison Bredice, and Audrey Hunker
- Eldritch Project: analyzing exotic words in H. P. Lovecraft's writings [GitHub]
Matthew Burch, Patrick Herron, and Evan Tatarka
Spring 2016
Coding and Data Visualization
- Digital Humanities Project Showcase Schedule
- During the week of April 18-22, Pitt-Greensburg students presented their semester Digital Humanities projects together with students in Prof. David J. Birnbaum’s Computational Methods in the Humanities course. The event presented a conference opportunity for the Pittsburgh and Greensburg Digital Humanities students to share their work, respond to questions, and gain feedback from each other and from instructors in both courses as they completed their project work for the semester.
Fall 2015
Coding and Digital Archives
Fall 2014
Digital Humanities
Fall 2013
Digital Humanities
Students’ project work involved expanding the Digital Archives and Pacific Cultures site, launched in Spring 2013 by a student-faculty team from two University of Pittsburgh campuses.
